The tragedy of Africa is that Africans are in the business of canonizing thieves and demonizing its saints.

Sometimes, and those times are many, wisdom demands that we remain silent. This is such a time.

Never lose sight of an antelope for a dashing squirrel.

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

The willing, Destiny guides them. The unwilling, Destiny drags them.

I have been in control of what Ive been doing, of the career Ive put together.

I always saw myself as really ugly. My father even told me I was ugly because I would shave my head and look like a boy.

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.

With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that go from being too important to being not important at all.

God created you for the first and greatest commandment, to be a lover of God.

The best thing is to find something you really love to do and enjoy that process for the rest of your life.

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.